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Vintage Photographs - Postcards

This section of the website contains archive photographs taken during, before and after the war. Specifically this sub-section contains a selection of picture postcards produced within each of the belligerent nations during the wartime.

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British
postcard, "Allied We Stand"
(SR)

French
postcard, "The Poilu's Journey"
(SR)

French
postcard: "In the fog... who is it?"
(SR)

Austrian
propaganda poster with Austrian and German monarchs
(SR)

French
propaganda postcard of Wilhelm as 'The Disciple' of Bismarck
(SR)

French
propaganda postcard of Allied troops pushing back the Germans
(SR)

Postcard
showing the hardiness of men who fought in the Alpine war
(SR)

British
postcard from "Sketches of Tommy's Life" series
(SR)

Humorous
British postcard depicting raw army recruits
(SR)

Humorous
British postcard: "More German Atrocities!"
(SR)

British
postcard depicting Tommy's troubles
(SR)

Propaganda
postcard of the treatment of a British prisoner of war
(SR)

British
postcard of Wilhelm II in a pulpit made from artillery shells
(SR)

French
postcard: "Foch's army crashes the Prussian guards", 1914
(SR)

French
propaganda postcard showing excess of German troops
(SR)

French
postcard of German troops pillaging a church
(SR)

Russian
propaganda postcard showing Wilhelm II fleeing
(SR)

British
propaganda postcard featuring the Kaiser: "Kill That Fly"
(SR)

UK
propaganda postcard: "Not Ashamed to Die"
(SR)

Victory
in Salonika with Tommy declaring the war's end
(SR)

French
marines at Dixmude in 1914
(SR)

French
postcard, "A day in the life of the Poilu"
(SR)

British
postcard: "The German Navy Taking Root!"
(SR)

Lille
(SR)

German
postcard depicting the German Army in Paris
(SR)

U.S.
postcard: "It's easier to say than to write"
(MF)

U.S.
postcard: "Down him Sammy"
(MF)

British
postcard: "He seems much better"
(MF)

British
postcard: "Your King and Country Thank You"
(MF)

French
postcard featuring a British trooper
(MF)

Postcard
of French and British navy ships
(MF)

Postcard
of French Dragoon
(MF)

British
postcard: "Defenders of the Empire"
(MF)

British
postcard featuring the Goeben: "All Bottled Up"
(MF)

German
postcard: "Heartfelt wishes of luck & blessings in the New Year"
(RF)

German
postcard: "Never will Germany be defeated when we are united"
(RF)

German
postcard: "We Germans fear nothing in the World other than God!"
(RF)

German
postcard: "...We will not be shaken..."
(RF)

German
postcard: "''Germany above, from victory to victory"
(RF)

German
postcard: "'Forward will be the order!"
(RF)

German
postcard: ''The Saviour of the East"
(RF)

German
postcard: ''With God for King and Fatherland"
(RF)

German
postcard: ''Dear Fatherland be at peace''
(RF)

German
postcard: ''Crown Prince Albert, the Victor of Beaumont''
(RF)

German
postcard: "Iron Cross"
(RF)

German
postcard: ''Peace and wellbeing in the New Year"
(RF)

German
postcard: "Germany, Germany over everything"
(RF)

German
postcard: Lyrics to German National Anthem
(RF)

German
postcard: "Love-filled greetings from the Homeland"
(RF)

German
postcard: ''God does not abandon what is''
(RF)

German
postcard: ''Through Danger and Death to Victory!"
(RF)

German
postcard: ''God be with us"
(RF)

German
postcard: ''Hail and Victory!"
(RF)

German
postcard: ''I do not know political parties, I know only Germans"
(RF)